[[quoteright:255:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aanothercinderellastory.jpg]] %%%%%% ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.%%%%The spiritual successor to Music/HilaryDuff's ''Film/ACinderellaStory'', Another Cinderella Story tells the tale of Mary Santiago (Music/SelenaGomez), an aspiring, talented dancer living in CinderellaCircumstances under her adopted mother/boss, the wealthy, influential Dominique Blatt (Creator/JaneLynch) and her two daughters, Bree (Katherine Isabelle) and Britt (Emily Perkins). Mary doesn't think that her life can get any worse: the only thing making it better is her trendy best friend Tami (Jessica Parker Kennedy), who is the one who tells her about the new celeb in town, Joey Parker (Drew Seeley).

Joey, on the other hand, is a famous, [[DawsonCasting "young"]] dancer/singer who comes back to Los Angeles with his best friend Dustin/The Funk (Marcus Paulk) to remember why he started dancing - but all he can find is his AlphaBitch ex-girlfriend Natalia (Nicole La Placa), who seems determined to get back together with him (much to his dismay).

At a masked black-and-white ball Dominique, Bree, and Britt try their best to keep Mary out of, Joey dances anonymously with Mary, and is left exhilarated even after she leaves to meet her midnight curfew. Determined to find her, he takes the Zune she leaves behind and sets out to find her.

[[http://www.tanzstudio-melzer.de/presse/mary-das-moderne-aschenputtel.pdf Was apparently turned into a stage musical in Germany.]]

!!Tropes associated with this movie:

%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Mary* AlliterativeName: Bree and Britt Blatt, Mary's evil stepsisters.%%* AlphaBitch: Natalia.%%* BetaCouple: Tami and the Funk.%%* BlackBestFriend: The Funk to Joey. %%* CoolLoser: Mary.* DanceOfRomance: The reason Joey falls for Mary.** The fact that he's cast opposite of 15-year-old Selena Gomez, who could probably pass for 13, makes it even worse* FosteringForProfit: Dominique adopts Mary for the sake of using her as unpaid help.* FlippingTheBird: Variation. Tami shows her fist to Natalia and screams, "Check out my totally invisible finger!"* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Dominique says she will never work with a certain man because he has a "serious case of the grab-hands". Later, she repeats this description for a woman she refuses to work with.** The SeparatedByTheWall scene is rather sensual.** When Joey sets up a booth to find his "Cinderella" figure, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim a few boys]] [[HoYay get in the line]], too. The Funk drives them off, saying, "You are ''so'' not his dream girl!"** A video reveals that Joey is at least ten years older than Mary, who is still in high school.** The NotWhatItLooksLike scene.** Dominique says to Joey. "Let's do it." She means a duet, but the look on his face shows he was thinking otherwise.** Tami's [[FlippingTheBird "invisible finger"]]%%* HighSchoolDance%%* {{Jerkass}}: There's Dominique, Natalia, Bree, and Britt.%%* JiveTurkey: The Funk.* [[TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper The Girl Who Can Tell Me The Top Four Songs on Their Zune's Playlist]]: How Joey sets out to find Mary. Naturally, dozens of girls turn up.* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Dominique, determined to keep Mary away from the Manhattan Academy of Dance in fear of losing her, tells the Academy's teacher that Mary has broken both legs and is unable to dance. Near the end of the movie, Dominique falls off the stage of Joey's concert and breaks both her legs.]]* LittleMissSnarker: Mary, [[spoiler: especially when Joey calls her up to the stage during his concert to apologize.]]%%* LonelyRichKid: Joey, from what we can see.%%* OfficialCouple: Joey and Mary.* NotWhatItLooksLike: Mary walks in on Natalia on top of Joey in bed. It turns out that Natalia had broken into his house and jumped on him.* ProductPlacement: Probably the only movie in existence to feature a Zune instead of an iPod.%%* RichBitch: Natalia, played completely, absolutely straight. Dominique, too. * SeparatedByTheWall: The male lead is teaching a dance class and the female lead is following along on the other side of the one way mirror. At one point they both lean into the mirror in the same exact spot and appear to feel something from it, even though he doesn't know she's there and they haven't properly met yet. %%* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy%%* TrashOfTheTitans: Dominique's bedroom.* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: When Dominique tells Mary she can't go to the ball as she has to clean her [[TrashOfTheTitans ridiculously filthy room]] before midnight, Tami arrives with some acquaintances of her sister, telling her that she's going to the ball. She did go, and she did have a good time, but she had to get back before midnight or else Dominique would suspect something.%%* WickedStepmother: Dominique, Dominique, Dominique. * WitchWithACapitalB: Averted; while Dominique is often called a "witch" in the movie, this probably has more to do with the whole [[FairyTaleMotifs fairy tale theme]] than anything.** And Dominique is willing to admit this herself...----